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I Feel Alive · Jack Black

I Feel Alive · Jack Black
EXERCISE 15 OF 54
2-bar fill at bar 23
75 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3
PART A
PART S3
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
9 groovesNJAGV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Feel Alive on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-40, ride through bars 41-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-70, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 21 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
I Feel Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 38, 39 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-64 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Feel Alive?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Feel Alive hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Feel Alive?

12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 38, 39 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED